Legal Opinion

People v. Reynolds

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1860PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Appeal from the Fourth District. No statement of facts is required. Defendant appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.

Field, C. J. concurring.

The defendant was indicted for murder, and was convicted of the crime in the second degree. The case comes before us on exceptions taken in the impanneling of the trial jury: First, to the disallowance of challenges for implied bias interposed to two of the jurors; Second, to the refusal to allow a peremptory challenge to one of the jurors after he was accepted and sworn; and Third, to the ruling of the Court requiring a juror to be sworn in chief and the defendant to exercise his right of peremptory challenge before the completion of the panel.

1. The statute…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Freeman v. PeopleNew York Supreme Court · 1847
  2. People v. BodineCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1845
  3. People v. HoneymanNew York Supreme Court · 1846

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. People v. DurrantCalifornia Supreme Court · 1897
  2. State v. TaylorSupreme Court of Missouri · 1896
  3. Shields v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1897
  4. People v. SchmitzCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1908
  5. People v. EdwardsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1912

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